Rear Park Aid question (‘07)

[JExpedition07]

My 2007 Eddie Bauer has the concealed rear parking aid sensors and I’ve noticed if I have the radio up I can’t hear it well. Volume low it’s not a problem. Where does the beeping sound come from and is there any way to make it interrupt the radio or make it louder? Not the end of the world if not I suppose...

It sounds like it beeps from somewhere behind me, like the back.

 

[chuck s]

Turn the radio off. I recall the beep sound comes from the rear on both my (former) '07 and (current) '17.

-- Chuck

 

[TXFRDOwner]

Rear driver side behind C pillar trim (second row)

Connector C4015





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[JExpedition07]

Hhmmm great info, I found it in the message center and the only options were <ON> and <OFF> so no volume adjustment. So the sound travels through from behind the trim? Must be a loud speaker behind there. You can’t see anything from outside it.

 

[TXFRDOwner]

If it’s really that important to you ... and depending on your wiring skills, you can cut, extend the wires and relocate the parking aid speaker to the front of the vehicle ( maybe behind the A or B Pillars


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[Trainmaster]

On the '08, it mutes the radio when the rear backup speaker beeps. If you have an OEM radio, it should lower the volume.

 

[LRNAD90]

Is it just me, or does that seems like a very weird spot to locate it, essentially behind the second row seats, when the Driver is the one that needs to hear it..

 

[chuck s]

I like the sound behind me -- it's a rear parking warning after all. We tend to look toward sounds, not away from them.

-- Chuck

 

[JExpedition07]

I have the factory Audiophile system, it does not interrupt the radio